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*  The handyman who works at an Episcopal church here, said that on
*  one occasion he pulled into a parking lot and a police officer
*  stopped him, pointed a gun at his head, called him a derogatory
*  name and warned, "If you move, I'll shoot you." The handyman
*  said he had been unlawfully stopped, harassed and interrogated
*  by the police eight times since he started working there.
*  
*  Another plaintiff, the co-captain of the Beverly Hills High School
*  football team, asserted that he had been pulled over at least 20
*  times in the last 18 months.
*  
*  The Mayor and Police Chief were named in the suit because they had
*  ignored numerous written and oral complaints of mistreatment.

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Think Rodney King was an isolated event?

*   The New York Times, May 13, 1997, snipped
*   "Police Chief Says Officers Violated Policy in Beating", by Kevin Sack
*   
*   Atlanta's police chief concedes the videotaped beating of an African-
*   American shows it violated departmental rules.
*   
*   Timmie Sinclair, 27, is a black Atlantan. Five officers surrounded him
*   and one Sergeant "repeatedly bludgeoned with a baton" Mr. Sinclair while
*   he was being handcuffed, and at least once while the other officers held
*   him down on the ground.
*
*   Mr. Sinclair was trying to fill a prescription for his sick child,
*   became confused by all the roadblocks the Atlanta police setup for
*   the annual "Bla